Monterey bay

First we went to Starbucks to have a croissant and a coffee (cappucino for Vincent, coffee Americano for Kurt). Then we headed to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where we walked around for two hours and saw some amazing fishes, jellies, sharks, ... At noon we walked to the Fishermans Wharf, where we walked around and went in some souvenir shops, ... Then we went to Taco Bell, another fastfood restaurant, where Kurt had a Bean Burrito, cheese caesadilla and a coke for 5 bucks, Vincent ate a supreme Burrito and something else. Afterwards we started trying follow the signs of the path of history, which lead us to the first brick house, the city hall, an old jail, ... At 4:30 PM we went back to the hostel, but it was closed, so we had to wait half an hour. A bit later we walked to Pacific Grove, where we walked around and at 6:15 we went to an hamburger restaurant, before going to the movies. We saw at 7:40 PM You, me and Dupree in the Lighthouse cinema (Yes, another movie with Matt Dilan). It was a funny movie. Afterwards we walked to the ocean and followed it back to the hostel, where we arrived at 10:45. Then we wrote this blogs,...

Greetings Kurtand Vincent.

PS, thanks for the comments.

24/08

We had breakfast, we made ourselfs some eggs,... And we got ready to leave. A bit before noon we took off with sarah to the greyhound station in Oakland. There we bought our tickets for 20$ and had to wait 45 minutes for our bus to Salinas, while waiting we ate our sandwiches.So drove from 1 PM to 5PM. When we arrived in Salinas we had to take an other bus to Monterey. After an hour we arrived at the Monterey transit. Then we started walking around trying to find our Hostel with our backpacks on our backs. Because of Vincents orientation and Kurts remeberence of having a Starbucks near the hostel, we almost walked straight to the hostel.(tough it was hard)
After checking in we went for a walk on Cannery row. Then we shared an XL-pizza (which was a bit to XL) Then we went to the hostel and read the newspaper and all the folders we could find before going to sleep.

Kurt and Vincent

six flags and burgers

We woke up at 9.30 AM. We made our breakfast: eggs, a bagel and milk. Afterwards we tried to upload de photos from the memorystick on the computer. Then we noticed that our photos were gone!!! But no worries, we will be able to recover them when we are home. Then we wrote the blog and wrote some postcarts. When Joe came home we ate lunch and went to six flags marine world.
There we saw some shows: a bird show, tiger show, a killer whale,... and I (Vincent) went on some rollercoasters. We went in a splach. At 6 PM we left the park and went to a restaurant where we met the parents of Sarah. In the restaurant we ate some... burgers.
tomorow we are going to Monterey. We are staying in hostels, so it will be hard to write the blog, but we will try to update our blog as much as possible.

Vincent & Kurt

22/08

We woke up at 7 AM in San Jose, because they could drop us off at the Bart station in Fremont, around 9 AM. We first had breakfast; cereals and some coffee. Then we met the baby (21 months old); Maya. We took the train to Orinda, where we left again at 11 AM, and we took off to Berkeley. We walked a bit around in the center of the city: there were a lot of book shops, ...
After 2 hours we ate something in a mexican restaurant: Caescadillas with chicken, I took the ones with cheese. This was served with chips and sauces: sauer cream and avocado. Afterwards we walked a little bit on the university site, Berkeley has a famous college. Then we took Bart again, to Oakland this time; the trains were still having delays, in the evening we found out that two people were found under a train. Oakland seems nice when you walk out of the station, but a bit further this changes. So, we left after half an hour. At 4:30 we were back in Orinda. We watched a bit the television with the kids and had dinner at 6 PM: something really tasty, that looked a bit like lasagna and was mexican. Then Joe called us, if we would like to come to the Embarcadero Center One, to watch an american avant-premiere of Factotum, a movie with Matt Dilan. So we went to San Fransisco to see it, and it was great. Afterwards Joe walked a little bit with us and went home, we took a cable car and walked a bit around till 10:30 PM. We got home at 11:30 and went to sleep.

Greetings, Kurt & Vincent.

Picknic and Shakira

Today we woke up at 9 AM, had breakfast (bagels + milk), and got ready to eave Orinda at about 10:15 AM. We headed towards the Claremont resort and spa, because the hotel company of Joe was having a picknic there. They organised nice games for the kids, there was a swimming lake, ... We first had lunch; caribbean style food, on very nice decorated tables. Afterwards we went swimming and went on a paddle boat together with Kylie and Ann (a friend of hers). We ate a second time, watched the limbo game, ... At 4:45 PM we left and went back to Orinda (I was already getting nervous to make it on time to san Jose) I bought tickets for a concert of shakira in the HP Pavilion and it would start at 7:30 PM.
At 5:15 we sat on Bart, had to transfer in Macarthur station and we arrived at 6:30 in Fremont. There we had to take the VTA bus towards the pavilion. It was a very friendly busdriver, (in Belgium I never spoke to one) but we soon found out we wouldn't make it to the concert on time. After going to will call, where the woman was very happy to see her first belgian passport, we got in our places at 8 PM. But we weren't to late, the concert only started at 9, and went on till 11. I found it very amuzing, so the second time I went to a concert of Shakira won't be the last time. I bought some souvenirs and Vincent called Jeff, a very friendly manm that drove us and is letting us stay with him this night. We already ate a late evening snack: some chicken for Vincent and potatoes for me. Tomorrow morning we'll go back to Orinda.

Greetings, Kurt and Vincent, from San Jose.

PS: Thanks for the comments; Jonathanm Sofie, Els, Silke and our parents. And for letting us stay here in San Jose; Jeff and family!